• Not to be confused with the song So Simple by Alicia Keys
  Alicia Keys
  Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano...
  
  

"So Simple" is the second single and track one of Stacie Orrico

Stacie Orrico

Stacie Joy Orrico is a Contemporary Christian and R&B singer-songwriter and occasional actress. In 1998, she signed to ForeFront Records when she was 12 years old, and recorded her first album Genuine , which sold 13,000 in the first week of release.After her first album she signed to a new record...

's third studio album Beautiful Awakening

Beautiful Awakening

Beautiful Awakening is the third album from American CCM/pop singer Stacie Orrico. The album was released on August 14, 2006. The album was not released in the United States and was canceled.-Background:...

. It was produced by Dwayne Bastiany.

Song information

"So Simple", musically continues the direction set by the album's first single "I'm Not Missing You", by having a R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

/Pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 vibe to it. This is illustrated by the lyrics present in both the pre-hook of the song and the chorus below.
The single was released on January 26, 2007 in Europe and Australia at around the same time. It was already released in Southeast Asia in October 2006.

Music video

The video for "So Simple" has been directed by Ray Kay

Ray Kay

Ray Kay is a Norwegian director and photographer, based in Los Angeles.He is one of the most sought-after music video & commercial directors in the world now, and has directed the most watched video on YouTube, Justin Bieber's "Baby" . All in all, his videos have been viewed more than 1 billion...

, who has directed videos for the likes of Nick Lachey

Nick Lachey

Nicholas Scott "Nick" Lachey is an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer and television personality. Lachey rose to fame as a member of the boy band 98 Degrees. He later starred in the reality television series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica with his then-wife, Jessica Simpson. He has released...

, Lady Gaga

Lady GaGa

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, Kristinia DeBarge

Kristinia DeBarge

Kristinia DeBarge is an American singer-songwriter. She first appeared on national television in 2003 as a contestant on the American Idol spin-off, American Juniors. In 2009, DeBarge signed a contract with the Island Records department Sodapop, releasing her debut album Exposed in July of the...

 and Melanie C. The video was shot in Calabasas, California

Calabasas, California

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 between the 8th and 9th of September 2006.

Ray Kay described the video for "So Simple":
The director of the video, Ray Kay

Ray Kay

Ray Kay is a Norwegian director and photographer, based in Los Angeles.He is one of the most sought-after music video & commercial directors in the world now, and has directed the most watched video on YouTube, Justin Bieber's "Baby" . All in all, his videos have been viewed more than 1 billion...

premiered "So Simple" online towards the end of October 2006 on YouTube.

Track listing

European Maxi CD

1. "So Simple"
2. "I'm Not Missing You" (Jason Nevins Urban Remix Radio Edit)
3. "Is It Me" (feat. Bossman)